Every December, the same call comes in. A payroll manager opens the new year's schedule, spots a pay date sitting on a bank holiday, and realizes the whole calendar was...Read More
Nobody thinks about holiday pay in October. Then Thanksgiving week arrives, half the warehouse works the holiday and the other half doesn't, three supervisors interpret the...Read More
Every month it's the same ritual. Finance asks for labor cost by department. Payroll exports the report. Then somebody spends half a day in a spreadsheet, re-sorting rows,...Read More
Open enrollment is over. The reminder emails have stopped, the last stragglers made their elections, and HR is enjoying the first quiet week in a month. It's tempting to call...Read More
Somewhere between the open enrollment packets and the holiday schedule requests, an envelope from your state's unemployment agency lands in a mail pile. It looks like every...Read More
If you run payroll, you already know how January feels. W-2 questions stacking up before you've had coffee. An employee who moved in June and never told anyone, now asking...Read More
Year-end payroll has a way of hiding its hardest problems until the last week. Youreconcile your quarters, you feel good about your numbers, and then someone asks whether the...Read More
A termination is one of the few payroll events where a small mistake can turn into a legal claim, a state penalty, or a very angry phone call from someone who just lost their...Read More
Switching payroll providers feels risky for a simple reason: your people need to get paid, and a payroll mistake is the kind of mistake everyone notices on payday. The fear...Read More
